{"id":727666,"date":"2026-06-10T15:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T15:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/727666\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T15:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T15:40:09","slug":"cricket-ireland-confirms-inter-provincial-t20-festival-called-off-after-unrest-in-belfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/727666\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket Ireland confirms Inter-Provincial T20 Festival called off after unrest in Belfast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cricket Ireland has confirmed this week&#8217;s Inter-Provincial T20 Festival in Lisburn has been called off following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cly0d13e4geo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a night of disorder<\/a> in Belfast on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The three-game series featuring Northern Knights, North West Warriors and Leinster Lightning was scheduled to take place on Wednesday and Thursday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement released on Wednesday afternoon, Cricket Ireland said the games would not &#8220;proceed as planned due to external factors&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The safety and security of our players, coaches and match officials is our most important priority,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We will provide further updates as they become available.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People were forced to flee their homes in Belfast amid disorder following a knife attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Houses and cars were set on fire and all public transport has been paused in the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cricket Ireland has confirmed this week&#8217;s Inter-Provincial T20 Festival in Lisburn has been called off following a night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-727666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}